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This survey discusses recent developments in the context of spherical designs and minimal energy point configurations on spheres. The recent solution of the long standing problem of the existence of spherical $t$-designs on $\mathbb{S}^d$…
Statistically studied are the equilibrium characteristics of a subsystem of mobile charges of one sort, taking into account the subsystem of fixed charges of the opposite sign creating a compensating electric background. The distribution of…
We prove a conjecture of T. Erd\'{e}lyi and E.B. Saff, concerning the form of the dominant term (as $N\to \infty$) of the $N$-point Riesz $d$-polarization constant for an infinite compact subset $A$ of a $d$-dimensional $C^{1}$-manifold…
We study the asymptotic behavior of discrete measures on S^{n-1} that are induced by radially projecting point masses concentrated on the integral lattice-points within dilates of a compact body D, for various classes of D. The results…
We consider two point charges in electrostatic interaction between them within the framework of a nonlinear model, associated with QED, that provides finiteness of their field energy. We argue that if the two charges are equal to each other…
Our aim in this work is to give some quantitative insight on the dispersive effects exhibited by solutions of a semiclassical Schr{\"o}dinger-type equation in R d. We describe quantitatively the localisation of the energy in a long-time…
We investigate the minimal Riesz s-energy problem for positive measures on the d-dimensional unit sphere S^d in the presence of an external field induced by a point charge, and more generally by a line charge. The model interaction is that…
We study the computation of equilibrium points of electrostatic potentials: locations in space where the electrostatic force arising from a collection of charged particles vanishes. This is a novel scenario of optimization in which…
There are many ways to generate a set of nodes on the sphere for use in a variety of problems in numerical analysis. We present a survey of quickly generated point sets on $\mathbb{S}^2$, examine their equidistribution properties,…
The aim of this paper is to establish a Ratner-type equidistribution theorem for orbits on homogeneous spaces associated with 2-nilpotent locally compact Polish groups under the action of a countable discrete abelian group. We apply this…
Let A be a compact set in the right-half plane and $\Gamma(A)$ the set in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ obtained by rotating A about the vertical axis. We investigate the support of the limit distribution of minimal energy point charges on $\Gamma(A)$…
This article determines the asymptotics of the expected Riesz s-energy of the zero set of a Gaussian random systems of polynomials of degree N as the degree N tends to infinity in all dimensions and codimensions. The asymptotics are proved…
We study the distribution of point charges in a straight conductive needle and the electric field created by them. Starting from the bead model with $n$ point charges on the needle, we show the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium…
We investigate the Riesz energy minimization problem on a $d$-dimensional ball in the presence of an external field created by a point charge above the ball in $\R^{d+1}$, $d\geq1$. Both cases of an attractive charge and a repulsive charge…
The equilibrium measure of a compact plane set gives the steady state distribution of charges on the conductor. We show that certain moments of this equilibrium measure, when taken about the electrostatic centroid and depending only on the…
We derive the complete asymptotic expansion in terms of powers of $N$ for the geodesic $f$-energy of $N$ equally spaced points on a rectifiable simple closed curve $\Gamma$ in ${\mathbb R}^p$, $p\geq2$, as $N \to \infty$. For $f$ decreasing…
The Wasserstein distance between probability measures on compact spaces provides a natural invariant quantitative measure of equidistribution, which is partly similar to the classical discrepancy appearing in Erd\"os-Tur\'an type…
We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies $\Gamma$-converge in the weak-$*$ topology to the Riesz functional…
We are concerned with the dynamics of one fold symmetric patches for the two-dimensional aggregation equation associated to the Newtonian potential. We reformulate a suitable graph model and prove a local well-posedness result in…
We study the equidistribution of Fekete points in a compact complex manifold. These are extremal point configurations defined through sections of powers of a positive line bundle. Their equidistribution is a known result. The novelty of our…